Quercus

Quercus Magazine is aimed at woodworking enthusiasts, professional or amateur, with a passion for hand-tools and working by hand. We cover everything from green woodworking to furniture-making, chair-making and carving spoons or Sloyd. You will find sharpening tips and profiles of toolmakers and expert craftspeople, plus reviews of books, videos and social media posts and themes. We will be publishing the background details about people you follow and know on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Quercus

Quercus

Robin Wood MBE • Nick Gibbs meets one of Britain’s most significant woodworkers of the 21st Century

The Virgin Dovetailer • Grateful for Bill Ratcliffe’s dovetailing lessons, Nick Gibbs finally completes a box in English timber

The Art of Kobiki Shokunin • Keen to learn more about carpenters of the past, Dylan Iwakuni joins a class learning old ways to saw

Better Rules for Pinching • Once you’ve made measuring sticks there’s no excuse for ill-fitting drawers says Mitch Peacock

The Great Blade Debate • Author of handplane books, Scott Wynn researches the varying degrees of value in plane iron angles

Weirdly Wonderful • Events for 2023 start in May across East Anglia with The Bodgers Ball and Weird & Wonderful Wood, then it’s a whirlwind around the Globe

Make a Whittled Whistle • Klemen Urbanija, from Slovenia, has a little project ideal for Summer fun, best made in Spring

Next Stops • In the first of a new series on planing by hand, John Lloyd looks at the use of stops and backstops

Tools to Go • When portability takes priority, Robin Gates finds the sturdy old tool bag fit for purpose

Ancient & Modern Chops • Inspired by print and digital guides to spooncarving, Nick Gibbs has a go with new Wood Tools kit

The Screw Sorter • Confessing to an obsession, Ethan Sincox explores the value of collecting old screws

The Younger Box • To inspire young woodworkers, Lie-Nielsen’s Deneb Puchalski makes a dovetailed box for a block plane

Sustainably Rare • In their remarkable new book, Craft Britain, Helen Chislett & David Linley praise our skills & traditions

Building a Bench • Celebrating retirement by building a workshop, Henrie van Rooij makes a simple, perfect workbench

Joining with Jigs • In an extract from his new book, Toyohisa Sugita explains how he came to love hand-tools

Practical Tools • In an extract from his classic book, Aaron Moore discusses its aims in developing countries in the 1990s

Never Enough Clamps • Aaron Moore shows how to make your own sash clamp

Big, Old Iron • Rex Krueger resurrects saw sharpening vices

The Knewer Concepts • Reluctant to forgo a favourite old fretsaw, Bill Ratcliffe is impressed by those made by Knew Concepts

The Early Adopter • Derek Cohen was the first Knew Concepts saw fan

Mortising Matters • Robin Gates considers some eponymous tools of the mortise and tenon joint

Planes for Trimming More • Charles Mak shows a few uses of the iron edge-trimming plane